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Tamar Geller, founder of The Loved Dog™, is a renowned life coach for dogs and the people who love them. Known for her insight, enthusiasm and red-carpet glamour in her trademark stiletto heels, Geller rejects the harmful prong collars and choke chains that have been common tools of dog trainers for the last sixty years. In Spring 2007 she releases her highly anticipated book, "The Loved Dog: The Playful Nonaggressive Way to Teach Your Dog Good Behavior" (Simon and Schuster) and her DVD, "Celebrate Your Dog! The Loved Dog Way of Training," based on her innovative and revolutionary approach to dog training that is light-years ahead of the typical dog trainer pack, promising to finally bring the petcare market into the 21st century.
Tamar became interested in dogs as she watched their training while serving as an Intelligence Officer with the elite Israeli Army Special Forces. After finishing her service, she had the extraordinary opportunity to study wolves in their natural habitat, observing that they taught their young primarily through games. Concluding that a dog possesses aspects of both wolf and human toddler, Geller created her innovative and revolutionary approach to dog training-an approach that is light-years ahead of the typical dog trainer pack.
Preferring the term "life coach" to "dog trainer" and "well-mannered" to "obedient," Geller provides insight to millions of dog enthusiasts nationwide as resident dog expert on "The Today Show." Geller has also appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (while training Oprah's three golden retriever puppies), "Animal Planet's Who Gets the Dog," CNN, CBS, ABC, Fox, "Good Morning Britain," as well as in the pages of USA Today, Newsweek, US Weekly, the Los Angeles Times and Self magazine, among others.
"Dogs are amazingly sensitive and intuitive creatures," Geller says. If you use stress-free, game-based behavior training (such as what we use with children) to teach them to communicate with you, you can train them not only to do what you want, but also to anticipate what you want. This is a much more successful method than using fear and aggression to force a dog to obey your command or submit to your will."
A founding member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, Geller is the go-to trainer for celebrities such as Ben Affleck, Courteney Cox-Arquette, Nicollette Sheridan, Owen Wilson and the Osbourne family, among others.
An active philanthropist, Geller has an uncanny ability to give a voice to dogs, serving as an advisor for the Humane Society of the United States and Best Friends Animal Society. She also supports Covenant House, where she created, sponsors and teaches the "Passionate Pups" program, bringing homeless youth and homeless dogs together. On the political front, Geller works with key politicians to promote legislation that will improve the quality of life for dogs; her long-term goal is to develop a national program in which homeless dogs work with prison inmates to be trained as service dogs.
Geller's extraordinary vision led her to open The Loved Dog™, Southern California's first cage-free doggie daycare and boarding facility, in 1996. Two years later, "Good Morning America" tapped The Loved Dog as the "Best of the Best;" Los Angeles magazine named it "Best in Los Angeles" in 1999 and 2000.
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